126th Edition of The Game Saturday at Noon

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale
football team (4-5, 2-4 Ivy) might be looking at this Saturday's
season finale with Harvard (6-3, 5-1) at Yale Bowl and the Class of
'54 Field as a chance to level the record, but it is fighting for
much more. The Bulldogs, trying to snap a two-game skid, hope to
grab the rivalry bragging rights for the first time in three years
and an edge in the off-season recruiting battles. The 126th edition
of The Game can be seen live on Versus and heard on WELI (AM-960,
960weli.com), WYBC (AM-1340, wybc.com) and on Sirius Satellite
Radio. Carm Cozza and Ron Vaccaro '04 begin the commentary on WELI
at 11:45 a.m. A video stream that includes their call will be
available on yalebulldogs.com within an hour of the final whistle.

THE SERIES

The Bulldogs lead the Crimson 65-52-8 heading
into the 126th meeting but Harvard has won seven of the last eight.
Yale is 28-24-5 at Cambridge, 30-27-3 at home and 7-1-0 at neutral
sites. There have been 55 shutouts since the first meeting in 1875,
and the Elis are 28-20-7 in those contests. The Blue has outscored
the Crimson 1,675 to 1,525. Yale is 11-13-1 against the Cantabs
when The Game has league title implications. This is the 26th time
the result of this game could impact the Ivy League title.

THE MATCHUP

Experts often advise prognosticators to "throw
out the statistics" when sizing up the teams for The Game because
the favorite is not always going to win. It might be fair to say
the Crimson come into this one more of a favorite than any team in
this contest since undefeated Harvard beat 0-6 Yale 17-7 in 1997.
Though Harvard leads the league in scoring and rushing, and goes up
against a Yale defense that is second in the league keeping teams
off the scoreboard, the Crimson defense (ranked 2nd in Ivy) has a
major advantage over the offense (6th) from Yale.

THE NUMBERS

Team Averages

Offense Y H

Rushing Yards 85.4
179.4

Passing Yards 225.4 183.6

Total Offense 310.9 363.0

Scoring 18.1 26.4

Defense Y H

Rushing Yards 144.9 73.1

Passing Yards 166.7 212.1

Total Defense 311.6 285.2

Scoring 16.9 18.0

THE PARKING

The Game has long been New England's largest
tailgating event, and there have always been traffic issues causing
major delays. Simply put, the roads and parking entrances around
the Bowl can not handle the typical volume seen when Harvard comes
to town. That is why the Yale Athletic Department implemented a
plan that includes the advance sale of parking passes for every
available space around the Bowl. If you plan to come to The Game,
please click on the "The Game, Fan Information" at the top of
yalebulldogs.com.

TIGERS TAKE TURNOVER TANGLE

Yale grabbed four Princeton fumbles and rolled
up 400 yards of total offense but lost 24-17 at Princeton Stadium
last week. The Tigers turned three Yale turnovers into 17 points
while rushing for 247 yards. The Bulldogs scored on a 33-yard pass
play from Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) to Peter Balsam (Orland Park,
Ill.), a one-yard run by FB Shane Bannon (Southbury, Conn.) and a
26-yard FG by Alex Barnes (Chesterfield, Mo.). The Elis were
successful on a fake punt and an on-side kick but couldn't keep the
Tigers' offense off the field enough. Junior LB Dan Walsh
(Elmhurst, Ill.) led all players with 12 total tackles, including a
season-best three for lost yardage, while sophomore DB Geoff Dunham
had a game-high nine solos. Another factor was eight Yale
penalties, the fourth game in 2009 with that many infractions.

SPREADING TOUCHES

Five different Bulldogs RBs got carries last
Saturday, led by sophomore Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.), who had 15
for 55 yards. The longest run was a 30-yarder by senior Rodney
Reynolds (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), while the only score came from
"blocking back" Shane Bannon, a one-yard plunge on his first
collegiate carry. Senior Jordan Farrell (Orland Park, Ill.) has the
best (3.6) average per carry and the most (3) TDs for a Yale runner
this season, but freshman Mordecai Cargill (Cleveland Heights,
Ohio) has the most (236) yards.

BALSAM GETS YALE MVP HONOR

Junior WR Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.) was
Yale's MVP last Saturday with eight catches for 92 yards and a
33-yard scoring play. Balsam had a special teams tackle as well. He
is second on the team with 32 catches for 309 yards and two scores.
Balsam also has nine tackles, a fumble recovery and has recovered
two Yale on-side kicks.

MONEY ON BALL

Junior DB Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) leads
Yale with three interceptions and three forced fumbles. He is the
team's top kickoff return man (23.4) and punt returner (8.1)
despite being the No. 3 choice. Gio Christodoulou (Miami, Fla.) and
Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) had the kick return duties before
suffering injuries. Money, who has a 77-yard interception return
for TD against Brown, is fourth on the team with 40 total tackles.

TWO-DEEP BEHIND CENTER

Sophomore Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) has five
of the nine starts and has a team-high 1,279 yards and eight TDs.
His most productive day was against Brown with 28 completions and
285 yards. Junior quarterback Brook Hart (State College, Pa.), who
started four games, has a better completion percentage (60.2) and
passing efficiency (116.2). Hart's career-best outing came in the
win over Dartmouth when he completed 28 of 40 passes for 390 yards
(6th best at Yale) and three TDs.

CRIMSON FALL TO QUAKERS

Penn clinched at least a share of the Ivy League
title by defeating Harvard 17-7 at Boston. The Quakers (7-2, 6-0)
withstood a late charge from the Crimson, stopping them on three
consecutive plays within the 5-yard line. Harvard QB Collier
Winters, who led the Cantabs in rushing with 57 yards, was stopped
at the goal line on fourth down with 2:40 left. An early second
half TD from Winters to Chris Lorditch was the only Crimson score.
Despite driving rain throughout the game, Kyle Olson and Keiffer
Garton combined to go 20-for-32 for 181 yards and one touchdown for
the Quakers. Garton also led the Quakers on the ground with 37
yards, while Olson scored Penn's second touchdown on a 1-yard run.

COACH WILLIAMS

Tom Williams was named the Joel E. Smilow '54
Head Coach of Yale Football last January and came to New Haven
after spending two seasons as an assistant for the NFL's
Jacksonville Jaguars. Williams has 11 seasons of college coaching
experience. He is the 33rd Yale head football coach but just the
third in the last 44 years.

CATCHING WILLIAMS

Tom Williams takes part in three media events
each week. Williams can be heard Monday nights on WYBC (AM-1340)
from 8 to 8:30 on the Yale Sports Monday Show. The Yale segment of
the weekly Ivy League media teleconference is 11:53 AM on Tuesdays,
while he is at the Yale Bookstore every Tuesday at 2 p.m. for the
Galiette Press Conference, which can be seen on sportingnewsct.com.

FIRST-YEAR BLUE

Tom Williams, 4-5 in his first year as a head
coach, has as many wins as the last two Yale coaches combined in
their first seasons. The best debut campaign for a Yale head coach
was the first, Walter Camp (13-0 and National Champs) in 1888. The
next 20 coaches enjoyed comparable success in the early years of
the sport. However, wins for new coaches in the later part of the
20th century did not come so easily. Two of the five Eli mentors
since 1950 had better than .500 marks, Jordan Olivar (7-2 in 1952)
and John Pont (6-3 in 1963). Herman Hickman went 4-5 in 1948, Carm
Cozza was 3-6 in 1965 and Jack Siedlecki was 1-9 in 1997.

MANTE LEADS LEAGUE

Senior P/PK Tom Mante (Westford, Mass.) leads
the Ivy with a 40.6 punting average, good for 18th in the FCS.
Mante has placed 17 punts inside the 20 and has nine boots over 50
yards. He was Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week two of
the first three weeks of 2009. He tied the Ivy League record with a
54-yard FG against Cornell on Sept. 26, while Mante had a 50-yard
FG at Georgetown the week before. Mante now shares the league long
FG mark with five others, but no kicker had reached from that
distance since 1976. He is the only Ivy kicker ever to hit 50-yard
field goals on consecutive Saturdays. Otis Guernsey drop kicked a
54-yarder for the Bulldogs in 1915. Mante, an NFL prospect, also
has punts of 73 and 65 yards and he recovered one of his own
on-side kicks. Mante was an All-Ivy selection at both positions
last fall.

MEMORABLE Y-H MOMENTS

The Yale-Harvard series has seen its share of
last-second wins, comebacks, outstanding performances, firsts and
freaky plays. Here are some of the most memorable meetings:

1881: Yale tries the first on-side kick ever in
football during a scoreless tie

1968: QB Frank Champi completes a TD pass and a
conversion play with no time left as Harvard gains a 29-29 draw at
Cambridge and shares the Ivy crown with Yale

1972: Yale overcame a 17-0 first half deficit to
win 28-17

1974: QB Milt Holt scored on a 1-yard run with 0:15
left in a 21-16 victory that gave Harvard a share of the Ivy title
with Yale

1975: Mike Lynch's 26-yard FG with 0:33 left gave
Crimson a 10-7 win and sole possession of the Ivy title

1995: Crimson Eion Hu scored from 2 yards out with
:29 left in a 22-21 win

1999: WR Eric Johnson (21-244) scoops up a QB Joe
Walland (42-67, 437) pass with :29 left to send Yale to a 24-21 win
and an Ivy title

2005: Clifton Dawson ended the longest game in Ivy
history in the 3rd OT with a two-yard run to give Harvard a 30-24
win at the Bowl

BULLDOG BITES

The Elis have not finished below .500 since a
4-6 campaign in 2005 (3 OT loss to Harvard in Bowl); Yale's last
5-5 season was 2004 (35-3 loss to Harvard)... No kicker has more
than one FG against Yale this season... No Yale opponent has more
than one TD run... Princeton's 46 attempts and 247 yards are a
season-high vs. the Elis... The Blue is 16 for 21 (76%) in the red
zone while allowing scores 63 percent of the time... The Bulldogs
averaged 13,384 in attendance over four games; Yale road games in
2009 averaged 5,604...Yale has allowed 29 sacks and sacked opponent
QBs 13 times... Harvard has won four of the six contests (soccer,
field hockey, volleyball, cross country) against Yale this fall.

LAST YEAR AT HARVARD STADIUM

With an Ivy League title at stake for both teams
in bitterly cold conditions and swirling wind, Harvard beat Yale
10-0 at Harvard Stadium on Nov. 22. The Yale defense came up with
big plays all day but the offense managed just 90 yards. LB Bobby
Abare '09 (6-12-18) and DT Kyle Hawari '09 (7-8-15) led the Blue in
tackles while SS Larry Abare and CB Adam Money both recovered
fumbles.

H-BACK AND A TIGHT END

Six-foot-2, 235-pound senior John Sheffield
(Portland, Ore.) leads the team with a career-high 55 catches and
539 yards and is 23rd in the nation with six grabs per game. Only
Brown WR Buddy Farnham (65) has more catches than Sheffield this
fall. Sheffield can be found in the backfield, in the slot, next to
a tackle on the line or split out wide. He has often been referred
to as an H-Back (don't confuse it with HB for halfback), also known
as a power back, which is a hybrid combining the TE and FB
positions. Sheffield has 120 career catches (3rd at Yale) for 1,143
yards. He needs 34 yards against Harvard to move into the top 10
Yale career receiving yards list.

Y-H ATTENDANCE

The average crowd for the last five games
against Harvard at the Bowl is 53,543. The 2007 game had 57,248,
which was the largest since 59,263 saw the 1989 contest.

ONSIDE BULLDOGS

The first on-side kick was performed by a Yale
player in 1881 against Harvard. Yale has been successful on all
four of Tom Mante's (Westford, Mass.) on-side kicks this fall.
Mante recovered the first one while Peter Balsam (Orland Park,
Ill.), has a pair of recoveries. Senior RB Brandon Scott
(Chatsworth, Calif.) picked up the on-side kick at Princeton.

HAASE LEADS ENDS

Senior A.J. Haase (Bonne Terre, Mo.) leads the
Yale "tight ends" with 14 catches and two TDs (John Sheffield is
listed as a TE/H-Back). Haase snared a 10-yard throw from Patrick
Witt with 58 seconds left for the game-winner at Columbia. It was
Haase's second career TD and one of the biggest for the Bulldogs in
2009. Haase, who has 10 grabs over the last three weeks, finished
with a career-best five for 75 yards at Columbia.

LEADERS ON D

Captain and LB Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights,
Ohio) has a team-high 43 solo stops and 63 overall including eight
TFL. Junior LB Sean Williams (Portland, Ore.) leads the Blue with
three recovered fumbles. Junior DB Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) has
forced three fumbles and picked off a team-best three passes. DT
Tom McCarthy (Chester, N.J.) and Williams lead the Blue with three
sacks.

CAPTAIN RICE

Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), a senior LB
who leads the team with 43 solo tackles and eight TFL, is the 132nd
Yale football captain. He earned Walter Camp Yale Player of the
Game honors at Lehigh after his 40-yard run (see photo) with a fake
punt turned into the game's only points. He came to Yale as a
talented RB but moved to defense when asked his freshman year.
Rice, who has 177 total career tackles and six interceptions,
started at CB the last three years before moving to LB this season.

IT STARTED HERE

The Game is responsible for a number of original
events: Yale performed the first on-side kick against Harvard in
1881; Harvard's flying wedge was first seen in the 1892 contest;
the first game in the Bowl was the 1914 meeting; the first crowd at
an American sporting event over 80,000 was the 1920 game at the
Bowl; and the first triple OT Ivy game happened in 2005 at Yale.

CRIMSON AND BLUE

A pair of starters who transferred to Yale last
summer have brothers who played at Harvard. QB Patrick Witt (Wylie,
Texas) and OL Gabriel Fernandez (Honolulu, Hawaii), have families
sharing rooting interests Saturday. Witt, who played at Nebraska
last fall, followed his brother, Jeff (class of 2009), into the Ivy
League. Fernandez, a former UCLA walk-on, watched his brother,
Frank (2007) become a first-team All-Ivy offensive lineman before
becoming a pro player in Japan. A third starter, captain Paul Rice,
followed his father, Lou Rice (former Harvard defensive player)
into The Game.

NEWCOMERS MAKING THEIR MARK

It's unusual for a Yale football team to have so
many newcomers making an impact. Five members of the class of 2013
are on the two-deep offensive depth chart, while two are on the
defense. A pair of freshmen receivers have a combined 25 catches in
seven games, by far the most ever for a Bulldog squad. To show how
significant that offensive production is, consider Yale's career
reception leader Ralph Plumb '05 had two total catches his freshman
season while former NFL player Eric Johnson '01 caught four balls
his rookie year. Allen Harris (Detroit, Mich.) established a Yale
record for catches by a freshman in a game with five against
Dartmouth and has seven this fall. Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) is
second on the team with 18 grabs after equaling the Yale record
with five grabs at Penn.

CLASS OF 2010

Here are some numbers to measure the impact of
the 23 members of Yale Football's class of 2010:

2 shutouts

2 student assistant coaches

3 All-Ivy players

4 had brothers who play or played at Yale

7 All-Ivy selections

9 switched positions since freshman year

11 interceptions

12 different positions represented

13.5 sacks

14 players who have started a game

15 states represented by the class

19 players listed on the two-deep

26 starts on the 2006 Ivy Championship team

27 wins, most since 1982

195 points scored

201 total starts

230 average weight of the players

596 total tackles

2965 total all-purpose yards

STAFF NOTES

Tom Williams taped an interview from Yale with
CNN that aired Nov. 4 on HLN as part of the show "What Matters"...
Two Yale assistant coaches spent time last summer at NFL training
camps as intern coaches. Kefense Hynson, who works with Yale's
receivers, was with Oakland. Ikaika Malloe, the Joel E. Smilow '54
Defensive Coordinator, worked with Jacksonville... Mike Sanford,
the mentor for the Yale TEs and a former Boise State QB, is the son
of UNLV football head coach Mike Sanford... Student assistant coach
Isaiah DeLeon-Mares, who worked at the Warrick Dunn Foundation,
also worked with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last summer.

STUDENT COACH

Yale senior Isaiah DeLeon-Mares has been a
student assistant coach ever since he recovered from the
post-concussion syndrome that ended his football career as a
sophomore. DeLeon-Mares has taken "coaching" to a new level with
his outreach efforts for the Black Men's Union. He developed the
curriculum, prospected at local high schools and devised a plan to
recruit and train good mentors who would help area youth. "We hope
to use our position, our lives and our influence to help mold these
young men. We push them to be better in all aspects of life," said
DeLeon-Mares, who also worked on the September presidential
motorcade in New York City and got to meet President Obama.

OTHER IVY GAMES LAST WEEK

Buddy Farnham caught a 17-yard pass from Kyle
Newhall-Caballero in overtime to lead Brown to a 14-7 victory over
Dartmouth on Saturday. After Farnham's score, Brown's James Develin
tackled Dartmouth quarterback Greg Patton for a 2-yard loss on
fourth-and-2 to preserve the victory. Farnham finished with seven
catches for 90 yards and Newhall-Caballero, the nation's
second-leading passer, was 20-for-44 for 179 yards for the Bears
(6-3, 4-2 Ivy League)... Columbia quarterback M.A. Olawale ran for
two touchdowns in the second half, sparking the Lions to a 30-20
win over Cornell on Saturday. Trailing 20-16 at halftime, Olawale
ran it in from a yard out with just over a minute to play in the
third quarter to give Columbia (3-6, 2-4 Ivy League) a 23-20
advantage. His 19-yard touchdown scamper with 1:51 to go in the
fourth sealed the win for the Lions. Olawale was 9-for-11 with 68
yards and added 95 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 11 carries.
Zack Kourouma had 105 yards on the ground and a score on 11 carries
for the Lions.

OPENING DAY FOR KENNEY, JENSEN

The Kenney Center and Jensen Plaza are finished
and officially opened last Saturday at Yale Bowl and the Class of
'54 Field. These two additions, to be dedicated the morning of the
Nov. 21 Yale-Harvard game, constitute the final phase of the $30
million restoration of the facility.

SNAP WITH SPIRAL

Senior DT Matt Kelleher (Southington, Conn.) has
handled all the long snapping with great accuracy and timing this
year. Kelleher, the former Connecticut State Player of the Year as
a QB, moved to defense his third year at Yale after injuries
prevented him from taking any offensive snaps. He was a starter on
defense last year but an injury this fall has limited him to
snapping duties. NFL teams are always looking for versatile players
with size and skill, especially if they can snap.

FATHER OF FOOTBALL

For the 10th straight season, the Walter Camp
Football Foundation honors Yale's game MVP as the Walter Camp Yale
Player of the Game. This award is handed out both at home and on
the road. Walter Camp (class of 1880), commonly known as the father
of American football, captained two Yale teams and coached five
others. He compiled a 67-2-0 record and won three national titles
as coach. Senior RB Jordan Farrell (Orland Park, Ill.) earned the
first award in 2009 with a 5.4 average per carry and two scores at
Georgetown. Week No. 2 went to senior PK/P Tom Mante (Westford,
Mass.), who tied the Yale record with a 54-yard FG and punted a
Yale record 12 times with six inside the Cornell 20-yard line. Week
three and four went to QB Brook Hart (State College, Pa.), who came
off the bench to complete 13 of 17 passes against Lafayette before
throwing for 390 yards in his first start of 2009 against
Dartmouth. Captain Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) earned the
honor at Lehigh with the game-winning TD and five tackles. Tim
Handlon (Valparaiso, Ind.) made 11 total tackles, forced a fumble
and broke up a pass to get the nod at Penn. Adam Money (Whiteland,
Ind.) was the clear choice at Columbia with 148 all-purpose yards,
a game-saving tackle and a key forced fumble and recovery. John
Sheffield (Portland, Ore.) was named the winner after nine catches
against Brown. Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.) earned the award
with eight catches for 92 yards and a TD at Princeton.

SUNDAY BULLDOGS

Eight former Yale football players are working
in the game this fall, either in the college or pro ranks. Mike
McCaskey '65, chairman of the Chicago Bears, Oakland assistant Don
Martin '71, Buffalo head coach Dick Jauron '73, Bob Wallace '78
(Executive V.P. and General Council, St. Louis Rams) and New
England assistant coach Pat Graham '01 are the Bulldogs in the NFL.
Bob Shoop '88, defensive coordinator at William & Mary,
Merchant Marine Academy offensive coordinator Kyle Metzler '02 and
Bobby Abare '09, linebackers coach at Wagner, work at colleges.

BULLDOGS LOVE BOWL

Yale is 364-194-26 overall in 584 games played
at the Bowl. The Elis are 124-75-4 in Ivy games. Yale has had seven
perfect and 11 undefeated seasons in the Bowl since it opened in
1914.

HAWAIIAN FRIDAYS

Three members of the Yale coaching staff have
ties to Hawaii, and Tom Williams has instituted Hawaiain Fridays in
the football office. Any staffers caught without a Hawaiian style
shirt on a Friday on the third floor of Ray Tompkins House is
subject to a one dollar fine. Sophomore OL Gabriel Fernandez
(Honolulu) is the first Yale football player from Hawaii in 10
years. WR Jimmy Bennett '00 (Honolulu), who played on the 1999 Ivy
League championship squad, was the last Eli from the 50th state.

BROTHER YALE

Seven current Bulldogs have brothers who play or
played Yale football. Current Yale football brother combinations
include junior OLB Sean and freshman QB Scott Williams (Portland,
Ore.) and junior DB Marcus and senior OLB Jack Wallace (Germantown,
Wis.).

LAST JV GAME

The Yale JV team takes on Harvard Friday at 1
p.m. at Clint Frank Field.

CAMPING OUT

The Bulldogs have begun a tradition befitting
the school responsible for shaping the game of football. Prior to
every home game, Coach Williams gathers the team under the Walter
Camp Field Memorial to remind the Bulldogs of their proud heritage
before they walk with the Yale Band and Bulldog fans to the Bowl.
Walter Camp '1880, who coached the Blue (67-2) for five seasons and
was instrumental in shaping the rules as we know them, is commonly
referred to as the father of American football.

YALE ON TV

Saturday is the eigth Yale football game on TV
this fall, including four of five home games. Yale on YES returned
for a second season with three straight Ivy League games (Columbia,
Brown, Princeton) on the network of the New York Yankees. Two
contests (Cornell, Harvard) are on Versus, the national cable home
of the National Hockey League that is in more than 73 million
homes. Other Yale games on TV in 2009 included Penn (Comcast),
Lafayette (RCN) and Lehigh (Service Electric 2).

ELI VOTE

A survey of this fall's squad revealed
interesting character traits. Here are the results of the player
voting:

NEWS/Talk 960 WELI broadcasts all Yale football
games on AM (960) and online at weli.com. Yale football coaching
legend Carm Cozza, a 2003 College Football Hall of Fame inductee,
is in his 12th season as the color commentator for WELI broadcasts.
Ron Vaccaro '04 returns for his fourth year as play-by-play
announcer. Vaccaro is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work
with NBC Olympics, his primary employer since 2004. His on-air
resume also includes the 2008 Beijing Olympics for NBC and the 2009
World Swimming Championships for Universal Sports. Sideline
reporter Alex Goldberger '08, engineer Tom Ivanovich and spotter
Kevin Guarino add the finishing touches to the broadcasts.

GUEST COMMENTATORS

Former Yale football standouts Bob Blanchard '61
and Jonathan Reese '90 will join Carm Cozza and Ron Vaccaro in the
WELI radio booth for the second and third quarters respectively
this Saturday. Reese captained the 1989 Ivy champions and was a
first-team All-Ivy LB. Blanchard was a first-team all-league DB who
helped the Elis to their last perfect season in 1960. John Pagliaro
'77 (Georgetown), Greg Burkus '83 (Cornell), Will Conroy '04
(Lafayette), Tom Doyle '75 (Dartmouth), Chandler Henley '06
(Lehigh), Stephen Schmalhofer '08 (Penn), Alex Faherty '05
(Columbia) and Erik Jensen '63 (Brown) and Greg Hall '77
(Princeton) have all been guest commentators this fall.

WYBC RADIO

WYBC (AM 1340) also covers each game. WFAN Radio
personality Bob Heussler, WYBC's Director of Football Radio
Broadcasts, and Anthony Brooks '03 MM, the station's sports
coordinator, lead a talented group of Yale students who can also be
heard on wybc.com. Yale football is also included in WYBC's Monday
night sports lineup from Lansdowne Bar & Grill (179 Crown
Street). At 8 pm, Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach
of Yale Football, makes a weekly appearance on "Yale Sports
Monday."

BULLDOGS AT YORKSIDE

Yale coaches and athletes will frequent Yorkside
Restaurant (York Street, New Haven) Monday nights from 8-9 for WYBC
Radio's sports lineup. At 8, Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow
‘54 Head Coach of Yale Football, makes a weekly appearance on
"Yale Sports Monday" with Anthony Brooks'03 MM and Sam Purdy
‘10. Athletes and coaches from all sports, including
football, will be interviewed each week on "Yale Sports Monday"
from 8-9.

TEAMLINE

Another way to listen to Yale games live is by
calling TEAMLINE at 800.846.4700 and using Yale's code 5682.

BULLDOGS AT BOOKSTORE

The Dick Galiette/Yale Football Press Conference
has moved from the Course at Yale back to campus with the first
edition on Sept. 15. The new location is the Yale Bookstore, which
will host this event for 10 Tuesdays at 2 p.m. Coach Williams and a
selection of players will take part in the press conferences that
are streamed live by Sportingnewsct.com. They will take place on
the second floor where all the book signings are done. The press
conferences are open to the public, but questions for Williams and
his players are limited to the working media. The Yale Bookstore is
also the sponsor of the Yale Sports Hotline (203.432.YALE), where
Yale fans get game-day scores without going to their computers.

NETCASTS/PODCASTS

Ron Vaccaro '04 hosts a series of video netcast
interviews, which will include the Yale football team and other
Yale athletics content, on yalebulldogs.com. Vaccaro also has a set
of audio netcasts featuring the team for Apple iTunes users at
itunes.yale.edu.

YORKSIDE AT BOWL

Media take note... The Yale Bowl may be in West
Haven, but the press box has a taste of New Haven with Yorkside
Pizza & Restaurant serving slices and salad on home Saturdays.
Rather than interrupting your work with a lunch at halftime, the
food is now served on its arrival before kickoff.

TRUE BLUE ROSTER

The 2009 Yale football roster includes 60 high
school football captains and 41 captains of other sports. The Elis
also list 52 National Honor Society members, six student body
presidents, six valedictorians and three salutatorians.

IVY WEEKLY TELECONFERENCES

The Ivy League will hold a weekly football
coaches' teleconference every Tuesday during the 2009 season
beginning September 15 and running through November 17. Each
teleconference will begin at 11 a.m. ET. Each coach will be
available for a seven-minute window to preview his team's upcoming
opponent and answer questions from the media. A replay of the
teleconferences will be made available on www.IvyLeagueSports.com.
The call is for working media, who can contact Steve Conn for the
pass code.

100 YEARS AGO

This November the Yale/Harvard contest in the
Bowl will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the historic
National Championship Game of 1909.The 1909 Yale-Harvard game, an
8-0 Bulldogs win, featured two undefeated teams (the next matchup
of undefeated squads in The Game was in 1968). Yale won the
national championship and preserved its unbeaten, untied and
unscored on marks. Three future members of the Football Hall of
Fame suited up for the game. For Yale: fullback Ted Coy and end
John Reed Kilpatrick and for Harvard: tackle Hamilton Fish. A
reunion of family members is planned for this November's game.